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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.
One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet.
I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
